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The early years of the Hispanic Society of America : Beatrice Gilman Proske

by: Proske, Beatrice Gilman, 1899-2002, interviewee; Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, compiler; J. Paul Getty Trust, publisher

Publication date: 1995

Topics: Proske, Beatrice Gilman, 1899-2002, Art historians

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Art historian Beatrice Gilman Proske was curator of sculpture at The Hispanic Society of America in New York and an honorary trustee at the Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. Proske studied at Simmons College in Boston. She joined the Hispanic Society as a cataloger in 1920, and later joined its museum department as curator. Her publications include the definitive catalog of the Brookgreen Gardens outdoor sculpture collection, first published in 1936 and revised in 1968

Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty

Includes bibliographical references and index

Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)